Palliative method targets the “whole-person” using mind-body practices, massage, stress and symptom management: “If I don’t live long, I want to make sure I live my best life.”
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards May 6 at 1:46 AM When Tori Geib learned she had terminal metastatic breast cancer in 2016 on the week of her 30th birthday, she was automatically booked to see a palliative care coach at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus.
Often called palliative care or integrative medicine, the comprehensive approach focuses on patients’ emotional needs and physical symptoms in addition to treating the disease. In 2016, 1,831 U.S. hospitals — about three-quarters — had a palliative care program, compared to less than one-quarter in 2000, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care.
“I have patients who are really anxious about treatment. They tell me about a family member who was treated 10 years ago and how horrible the side effects were and how hard it was to watch,” says Nathan Handley, a medical oncologist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. “I tell them we’re living in a different time. We have a lot more to offer. There are more options, more support and more hope.
Paying attention to patients’ comfort and emotional mind-set isn’t just the humanitarian thing to do to reduce suffering. A growing body of evidence shows that it may extend their survival. “When the War on Cancer was originally conceived in the 1950s, it was a war at all costs. We were so obsessed with winning that we accepted the idea that a patient being invaded with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery was the price someone had to pay to get through the deadliness of the disease,” says oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.” “Since that time, things have changed vastly. We don’t always give the maximal treatment.
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